Mcluhanism Quotes

#1. McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.

Pauline Kael

#2. One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.

Samuel Smiles

#3. The hormonal and metabolic environment of the body within which calories enter determines how your body deals with those calories.

Scott Abel

#4. If suffering through four years of hellishly misguided big government is the price we pay for true reform, it may in the end be worth it.

Peter D. Schiff

#5. All societies are historical.

Raymond Queneau

#6. Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

Roland Joffe

#7. Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.

Jeff Bridges

#8. A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

Jane Austen

#9. She was re-creating herself, shedding one skin for another.

Kiana Davenport

#10. I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband ...

Margaret Cavendish

#11. The only hope for civilization is the greater freedom, development and equality of women.

William Moulton Marston